It’s an honour to be here: reflecting on the miracle of working in water tech

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It’s an honour to be here: reflecting on the miracle of working in water tech

There was always a street that I loved so much in my hometown and I didn’t know why.

I didn’t know why.

I just always thought that it was the most magical place on earth. I can clearly see why, having trekked there (trekked because it is far away and up a much steeper hill than the last wind farms I visited and even at 10 pm it is boiling). Still. But standing at the mouth of this street. As it is a one way cul de sac that tumbles and curves just like a river. I can see why.

I can see EVERYTHING. I can see pylons, lit up by the golden sunset. And I can see wind farms. About five turbines. It takes me years to realise these beautiful things. Just like it took me years to realise why I always felt the most powerful on the new motorway in Luxembourg they spent over 20 years building - it is absolutely ADORNED with pylons.

Three pylons at sunset. Are lit up my an orange sky. They are framed by the trees on either side. They are high up on a hill and they are stunning and they are just dazzling.
A Live Photo from the pylons. 

I tried to take a photo of the wind farms but they were much further away. What is here though are the BATS. 🦇 

Full disclosure I love bats. 🦇 they are one of my favourite animals my favourite animal being a deer. 🦌 but I love bats 🦇 and they always fly really close to me which I love. Long live bats 🦇 

A beautiful street at sunset. The sky is orange and red. There are loads of road lights in the distance. On the horizon we can see the silhouettes of several wind farms.
A spectacular view of the wind farms.

Anyway I wanted to say one thing quickly; I just realise now that I never lost my passion and my inspiration. I just completely burned out. I love what I do so so much. 

I love what I do so so so so so much. 

I love it the most in the world. But I just completely neglected to switch off for the past few months.

And that has to stop now. Never again. Never again in my career do I want to do what I just did - working or studying 7 days a week and often til late at night. I can’t love what I do as much like that. I have more passion and love when I have a balance. I have to love what I do but find a way to stop. 

I have to do my job and do my Python but find a way to stop. I want to read meditate dance and sing and go for long walks and rest. Resting is of the utmost importance. Oooooh I just saw another bat 🦇 definitely a sign to rest more. 

Please picture me in the trees 🌲 🌴 🌴 🌳 I hit my peak at seven

I was walking down the street and singing seven and listening to my own prerecorded version as I am covering it for YouTube. Some friends asked me to do it. It’s the Taylor Swift song of course. Like most of the world I am reeling from the horrific attack on the young girls at the Taylor Swift event this week. I am absolutely disgusted by it. There are no words for how bad I feel. I feel completely sick. Does violence against women start this young? Of course it does and it has been known to start much younger too. I am disgusted. My favourite Taylor Swift song is about being precisely the age those three little young girls were killed at. I am disgusted and I can say no more. 

While I was singing that song all of my passion came back to me. 

I saw the hydroelectric dams in the mountains and how much I love them. I keep having an image of a lake or a river deep, deep, deep within a rock. And the water and the turbine and all of the pumping system that goes on to power it. I don’t know the technical terms. 

But I do know that I work in water software. And I am part of a team that has the potential to make a huge difference to this world. What an honour it is to be working in this place already. 

Pinch me every day please, for this is a complete and total and utter miracle. All of my research on renewable energy and AI lends itself here as nearly all of my work so far has been around water and AI. It’s an absolute miracle and a dream come true. 

It is an honour to be here. 

A beautiful playground on a hill that is on a hill where there is a path with a concrete wall lit up by a single streetlight
Sitting by this playground right now. One of my favourite spots where you can see so many pylons. I think it’s time to go home…



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